RICHARD FEYNMAN QUOTES

"I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."

Richard Feynman

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."

Richard Feynman

"The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion."

Richard Feynman

"I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong."

Richard Feynman

"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."

Richard Feynman

"We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress."

Richard Feynman

"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts."

Richard Feynman

"I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb."

Richard Feynman

"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one - million - year - old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?"

Richard Feynman

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

Richard Feynman

"It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama."

Richard Feynman

"When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles.

The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!"

"Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes."

Richard Feynman

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

- Richard P. Feynman

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

- Richard P. Feynman

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

- Richard P. Feynman